The keynote speakers include Sarah Palin, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin. Gov. Rick Perry also will be attending. It’s as if every political punchline in America will be in my backyard.

If only Ann “Skeletor” Coulter and Cryin’ Glenn Beck could show up, it would be perfect.

If this goes down like the two previous Tea Party events in San Antonio, here’s what we can expect from Tea Party believers:

• They will predict angrily that the media will ignore it• They will say nothing when the event is covered extensively• The speakers will fire up the crowd with angry rhetoric.• The attendees will later deny that anyone was angry.• They will then call up AM talk radio afterward to complain about how the media (and public safety officials) grossly underestimated the crowd size.

This reinvigorates me. I’m ready to tee off on the Tea Party. And I can feel the frustration welling up in the High Rant District.

Until then…

The Top 10 obscure but important foreign policy stories of the yearEvery year, journalists take time off at the holidays. To fill space, they come up with lists and retrospectives of that year’s news. Those lists are usually lame.

Included: The opening of the northeast passage, ROTC for spies, and The Beijing-Brazil Naval Axis.

Ten worst marketing blunders of the yearThe only thing worse than lazy journalists cranking out Top 10 lists is lazy bloggers who link to them. That said, here’s another good one (via AdFreak). It covers the biggest marketing missteps of the year. Included: KFC, Oprah & fried chicken; The Jay Leno overdose; and the return of blackface.

Good stuff, but new Coke remains the gold standard for screwed up marketing.

Roy Bragg

6 Responses

Roy, you’re glutton for punishment if you’re actually attending this hate rally. I couldn’t imagine an (this is very important) intelligent, sane person who would willingly subject themselves to this rhetoric of intolerance.

Ah, you must be on assignment – maybe you’ll catch H1N1 and be spared with only minor discomfort compared to what you’ll face at the Tea farce.

Don’t forget Cornyn – as much as he hates Obama, I’m surprised he won’t be in attendance.

If conservatives ever overcame their homophobia they would quickly win congress. I don’t like to generalize, but gays as a group seem to be much more fiscally conservative than straights – I guess that goes with being neater and tidier. I don’t expect to see them at a tea party though.

Glad you’re so invigorated Roy, you and the libs will need it. The messiah’s numbers are tanking, and it looks someone might drop a house on the wicked witch of the left Pelosi in next years mid-terms. Reid is way behind in his re-election bid as well. Maybe if you held an Obamaist symposium and invited Barney “the banking queen” Frank and Chris “I get a thrill going up my leg” Matthews you could save them.